UhBell@lemmy.world to Memes@lemmy.ml · 1 year agoI'm tired of the inequalitylemmy.worldimagemessage-square322fedilinkarrow-up1245arrow-down128
arrow-up1217arrow-down1imageI'm tired of the inequalitylemmy.worldUhBell@lemmy.world to Memes@lemmy.ml · 1 year agomessage-square322fedilink
minus-squarecyruseuros@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·1 year agoHold on, the link you posted says 10 to 100 times more than the natural background extinction rate. That’s very far from "any of the previous mass extinctions in the history of the Earth.
minus-square4ce@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·edit-21 year agoNo, it says 100 to 1,000 times higher than the background extinction rate both in the general intro and in the “Extinction rate” section, and 10 to 100 times higher than in any of the previous mass extinctions in the history of Earth in the “Extinction rate” section (both verbatim quotes from its first sentence).
minus-squarecyruseuros@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·edit-21 year agoOh, dropped a digit. Should have just taken that nap I was gunning for. My mistake!
Hold on, the link you posted says 10 to 100 times more than the natural background extinction rate. That’s very far from "any of the previous mass extinctions in the history of the Earth.
No, it says
both in the general intro and in the “Extinction rate” section, and
in the “Extinction rate” section (both verbatim quotes from its first sentence).
Oh, dropped a digit. Should have just taken that nap I was gunning for. My mistake!